Jin Kyung is a South Korean actress who was born on March 27, 1972, in Masan, South Korea. She studied at the Korea National University of Arts, where she majored in Art History. She made her acting debut in the stage play “Secret Royal Inspector Park Mun Su” in 1998 and began featuring in movies at the turn of the millennium. She made her small-screen bow in 2011, appearing in “War of the Roses.” She has since gone on to appear in titles such as “Oh My Venus” (2015), “Dr. Romantic” (2016), and “Dr. Romantic 2” (2020).

Jin Kyung

As a newly married woman in 19th-century Korea, Park Yeon Woo’s (Lee Se Young) life should have been a happy one. But when her new husband dies shortly after their wedding, her life goes from bad to worse when she’s kidnapped and thrown down a well. What should have been the end of her story turns out to be just the beginning when her fall into the well lands her in a swimming pool in modern-day Korea. Fished out by Kang Tae Ha (Bae In Hyuk), Yeon Woo soon finds herself presented with a strange request: to join him in a contract marriage. Lost in a strange new world, will Yeon Woo agree to make a dying man’s wish come true? This 2023 South Korean historical romance series was directed by Park Sang Hoon.

The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract

✨ The Marvellous ✨ team

Mok Sol Hui (Kim So Hyun) can “hear” other people’s lies, no matter how hard they try to hide the truth. Her “superpower” has left her jaded and she considers everyone she meets to be morally bankrupt. That changes fast when she meets her new neighbor: the successful music producer and murder case suspect Kim Do Ha (Hwang Min Hyun). Sol Hee learns that her superpowers do not work on this mystery man... and unexpectedly starts to fall for him. Will she ever learn the deepest secrets of his heart? This 2023 South Korean drama series was directed by Noh Young Sub and Nam Sung Woo.

My Lovely Liar

The Mythomaniacs

As a professional contract marriage master, Choi Sang Eun (Park Min Young) knows exactly what it takes to make her clients happy. Transforming herself into the perfect partner, Sang Eun gives her clients what they want: a perfect single life, free of any life-long commitments. Among her long-term clients are Jung Ji Ho (Go Kyung Pyo) and Kang Hae Jin (Kim Jae Young), two very different men who employ her services on alternating days. Though professional with every one of her clients, Sang Eun has noticed that both Ji Ho and Hae Jin have started to make her heart flutter. Torn between her professional obligations and her growing feelings for Ji Ho and Hae Jin, will Sang Eun find a way out of this unexpected predicament? Directed by Nam Sung Woo, this is a 2022 South Korean romantic drama.

Love In Contract

 💥 The Almighty ✨ Team

Teaching mathematics at the prestigious Ahseong High School, Ji Yoon Soo (Im Soo Jung) loves her job almost as much as she loves math. A good-natured woman, with a tenacity that is always driving her forward, Yoon Soo is an excellent teacher who loves to share her fondness for math with her students. Extremely passionate about the subject, Yoon Soo is always encouraging her students to find their own answers and is happy to come alongside those who might need a little extra help.
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Among those students is Baek Seung Yoo (Lee Do Hyun), an extremely introverted and seemingly troubled student who consistently ranks at the bottom of his class. Never speaking to anyone, Seung Yoo spends much of his time alone, choosing to take pictures with his camera, rather than interacting with anyone around him. Seeing Seung Yoo’s potential in math, Yoon Soo is determined to help the struggling youth. With time and attention, Seung Yoo’s grades begin to improve but his success in math brings with it an entirely unexpected set of problems. With rumors of a teacher-student scandal now floating around school, it doesn’t take long for Yoon Soo’s world to come crashing down around her.
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Reunited four years later, Yoon Soo and Seung Yoo are determined to expose the corruption at Ahseong High School and regain Yoon Soon’s reputation as an excellent teacher. Will their efforts be enough to overcome such deep-seated corruption, or will their shared history only serve to destroy them further?

Melancholia

The Wistful Team

Ji Oh (Kim Rae Won) is a man in possession of unearthly powers and fighting skills – the only problem is, he has no idea who he is, how he got where he did, and why he is being pursued by people keen to capture him and learn his secrets. He isn’t even sure he is fully human.

The intrigue deepens as he learns about a mysterious group of scientists at an institution named Human Tech, and a secretive genetics and biotech project codenamed L.U.C.A.

This shadowy group, assembled by a secretive mastermind, is conducting curious experiments in a bid to create the perfect human, The group wants to learn Ji Oh’s secrets – as does another fearsome individual, a special forces agent named Lee Son (Kim Sung Oh) who also possesses otherworldly powers.

Ji Oh’s only ally is a female detective named Gu Reum (Lee Da Hee) – a woman on a quest to discover the truth behind her parents’ deaths.

Together, they hunt for answers – but who is hunting them?

“L.U.C.A.: The Beginning” is a 2021 South Korean drama series that was directed by Kim Hong Sun.

L.U.C.A.: The Beginning

The Children of LUCA 

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Three families live under one roof at a boarding house called Samgwang Villa. Sun Jeong's family lives a pure and simple life and doesn't have a lot of money. Jung Hoo's family is rich but is far from peaceful. Jung Won's family looks perfect from the outside but is actually quite rocky. Others join these families at Samgwang Villa, each with their own stories. What is the meaning of family in this day and age, with so many single-person households and people choosing not to get married? Let's meet the people who open their hearts to one another to live and love as a family in Homemade Love Story.

Homemade Love Story

Jung Man (Bae Sung Woo) is a straight-living office worker who is down on his luck. He has already been declared bankrupt, and despite the fact that both he and his wife are working, they are now struggling to make ends meet.

They have to care for his mother, whose health is deteriorating, as well as his daughter, whose application for a student loan has just been turned down.

One fateful day, he comes across an abandoned designer bag in a sauna locker. He takes a look inside and is shocked to discover that it is stuffed to the brim with banknotes.

Not sure what to do, he takes it to a storage room while he decides what to do with his discovery.

However, a number of other individuals soon learn the secret of this mysterious bag – and plan to get their hands on it. These include a brothel madam named Yeon Hee (Jeon Do Yeon) and a customs agent named Tae Young (Jung Woo Sung), who needs to pay off a debt to a dangerous loan shark.

“Beasts Clawing at Straws” is a 2020 South Korean movie directed by Kim Yong Hoon.

Beasts Clawing at Straws

Dr. Kim once gained fame as a top surgeon at a huge hospital. One day, he left the industry, and now he is a chief surgeon at Doldam Hospital in the countryside. After he conducted a successful operation on Chairman Shin, he gets to improve the hospital under reliable support. But then Chairman Shin passes away. New people appear, and his students had to leave the hospital. Furthermore, his wrist, which was injured three years ago, starts to act weird. After all, he goes to a huge hospital himself to solve the manpower shortage at Doldam Hospital, where he finds two people who resemble his former students but who seem much more lacking. Woo Jin would do anything for money, and Eun Jae runs out every time she goes into a surgery room.

Dr. Romantic 2

The Second Opinion Team

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One son chooses power while another son chooses justice. The powerful and corrupt Jang family has controlled the city of Bukcheon for three generations. The current leader of the family operations is Jang Beom Ho (Park Geun Hyung), and his oldest son, Jang Ki Seo (Kim Sung Kyun), follows in his father’s footsteps in all the ruthless dealings to keep a stronghold on the city through whatever violent means necessary.

The second son, Jang Joon Seo (Jin Goo), decides to pursue a more noble life by becoming a police detective. When Joon Seo’s wife ends up being killed, Joon Seo is determined to get to the bottom of the murder, even if it means exposing dirty secrets about his own powerful family. 

Seo Yi Ra (Jung Eun Ji), a prosecutor, is intent on bringing the Jang family to justice. But she has to contend with Joon Seo and Goo Ja Kyung (Go Jun Hee), the daughter of the former president, in her quest to bring down the powerful crime family.

“Untouchable” is a 2017-2018 South Korean drama series directed by Jo Nam Kook.

Untouchable

The Touch Me If You Can Team

Dong Joo is the country's highest scorer in the medical licensure exam. Because of why he wants to become a doctor, he ends up getting reassigned to a small but terrific Doldam Hospital alongside his co-worker crush, Seo Jung. The two of them work on the hardest cases together while learning from the country's best surgeon. Though Dr. Kim's the most experienced surgeon in South Korea, his ways while on the table are against everything Dong Joo and Seo Jung spent years on in medical school.

Dr. Romantic

Romantic Doctors ♡

Former teenage sweethearts separated by uncontrollable circumstances, Sin Joon Young (Kim Woo Bin) and No Eul (Suzy) are reunited as adults – when the latter is commissioned to make a documentary about Joon Young. He is now a superstar actor and singer who's dead-set against filming his documentary and gives No Eul a miserable time. Gradually, he relents to the documentary and uses the time to try and win her heart back. Can they rekindle their once-passionate love? This 2016 South Korean drama series was directed by Park Hyun Suk and Cha Young Hoon.

Uncontrollably Fond

The Uncontrollable Lovebirds

Shin Young Ok

Do Ra Hee (Park Bo Young) is a young and idealistic graduate who has just landed what she thinks will be her dream internship at the entertainment desk of a major newspaper. But her dreams are shattered in a mere instant when she meets the hot-tempered, foul-mouthed entertainment section manager Ha Jae Kwan (Jung Jae Young). Before she has even said hello to him, she witnesses him flying into a rage and smashing his office telephone to pieces in a curse-filled rage.

He then berates her for a lack of “passion” and proceeds to inform her that there will be no time off for her if she joins the desk, not even at weekends. She does her best to get on his good side by writing stories, most of which he tears up in front of her face – demanding scandal-filled exclusives. But when she is ordered to write up a suspicious-looking story about an actor who allegedly committed sexual assault, she starts to realize that the information she has been given may have been fabricated. Do Ra Hee decides to defy her section editor and investigate for herself…

“You Call it Passion” is a 2015 South Korean movie that was directed and co-written by Jeong Gi Hun.

You Call It Passion

✨The Passion Lovers Team

Can a group of Korean resistance fighters carry out an assassination before enemy forces hunt them down?

Yeom Sek Jin (Lee Jung Jae) is a Korean resistance fighter during the 1930s Japanese occupation of Korea. He plans out the assassination of a Japanese commander and hires Ahn Ok Yoon (Jun Ji Hyun), a skilled sniper. Ok Yoon takes on the mission, along with her comrades Soksapo (Jo Jin Woong) and Hwang Duk Sam (Choi Duk Moon), to fight for Korean independence.

The Japanese send government sends contract killers Hawaii Pistol (Ha Jung Woo) and his partner Buddy (Oh Dal Soo) after Ok Yoon and her men. But can Ok Yoon carry out her mission when there is a traitor among them?

“Assassination” is a 2015 South Korean film co-written and directed by Choi Dong Hoon.

Assassination

Dal Po's real name is Ha Myung. When he was about to drown at 14, Gong Pil saved and adopted him, giving him a new name. Gong Pil believes Dal Po is his son who was lost in the sea in the past. And Dal Po tries to erase his past to live as Gong Pil's son. He even pretends to be bad at his studies even though he is brilliant and intentionally wears shabby clothes to hide his good looks. He gives up going to college due to financial difficulty at home. Still, he succeeds in becoming a reporter with unique talents thanks to the intelligence and experience he acquired by driving a taxi. Meanwhile, he has a niece who is the same age as him. She has Pinocchio syndrome, so she can't choose a job that requires some amount of lying. She decides to be a reporter, whose job is to seek the truth at all times.

Pinocchio

The Can't Lie Team

The value was changed from A drama portraying the lives of doctors who struggle to bring happiness to families and children, \u201CGood Doctor\u201D deals with the pediatricians who save the lives of young children through a steadfast sense of duty and the pain and agony these doctors face. The raw, uncut reality of a pediatrics department bound to be substandard due to the upper management\u2019s strict pursuit of profit and a completely illogical insurance system. The actions of the doctors, who take responsibility for the children\u2019s futures rather than just simply treating them, make one rethink the question of what adults must truly do for children. \u201CGood Doctor\u201D attempts to show that those with disabilities have feelings and dreams just like everyone else and that they are actually beautiful people who can touch the hearts of all. It delivers a message saying that what these people need is not sympathy and pity, but a sense of belonging, appreciation, and recognition as a member of society.

Good Doctor

The newest member of a highly specialized unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department, Detective Ha Yoon Ju (Han Hyo Joo) is eager to prove herself. Possessing a unique set of skills and a nearly photographic memory, she seems a perfect match for a unit tasked, not with arresting criminals, but observing and gathering intel vital to their arrest and prosecution. Able to blend in to any surroundings, this team of specialists is considered the best of the best, so when a group of criminals evade capture after a high-profile robbery, the team is called into action.

Rising to the challenge, Chief Detective Hwang Sang Jun (Sol Kyung Gu) and his team set out to catch the perpetrators but the job won’t be easy. Led by a cold-hearted mastermind known only as James (Jung Woo Sung), this highly organized group of criminals has nearly perfected the art of disappearing. But they can’t stay hidden forever. When a hit order is put on James by his superiors, the detectives move in, following the trail of chaos the desperate villain leaves in his wake.&nbsp;

Putting their own lives on the line, the detectives close in on their target, but bringing a criminal like James to justice won’t be easy. Refusing to go down without a fight, James leads the police on a chaotic chase throughout the city that can only end one of two ways. It’s a high-stakes game of cat and mouse and only the winner will survive.

A non-stop thrill ride, “Cold Eyes” is a 2013 action thriller film directed by Cho Ui Seok and Kim Byeong Seo.

Cold Eyes

👀❄️Surveillance eyes👮🏻‍♀🚔

From lecturing, meetings with students' parents, self-defense to first-aid treatment, Ma Yeo Jin masters everything and strives for perfection in every aspect. She joins Sandeul Elementary School as a homeroom teacher of Class 6-3 after her two-year hiatus. With a poker face, Yeo Jin teaches her rebellious students using an unorthodox and unique method, and she tells them the inconvenient truth. Besides, what had happened to Yeo Jin during the two-year hiatus?

Queen's Classroom

Within the Moonlight Garden resides a majestic creature that led to the birth of Kang Chi. He's a Gumiho who doesn't know about his abandoned past. He meets a quirky woman who dresses up as a man. They fall in love and fight the battle of love, curses, and the fact that they're of different origins. The journey to their peace takes forever, but the love that forms between them makes each step worth fighting for.

Kangchi, the Beginning

The Gumiho Lovers Team

As a promising vocalist, Sang Jin (Han Suk Kyu) might have had an incredible career in music, had fate not dealt him a crushing blow. Diagnosed with a vocal cord tumor, Sang Jin was forced to give up a career as a vocalist but that didn’t mean he had to give up music entirely.

Taking a position as a high school music teacher, Sang Jin might have eventually settled into a comfortable, albeit ordinary life, had Jang Ho (Lee Je Hoon) not transferred to his school. A teenage gangster with a lot of local clout, Jang Ho quickly became a thorn in Sang Jin’s side. But when Sang Jin hears Jang Ho sing, he’s immediately impressed by the young man’s natural vocal talent.

Determined to help Jang Ho develop his talent even further, Sang Jin commits himself to Jang Ho’s training. As the two work closely together, a strong bond forms between the two but everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve is threatened when two rival gangs force Jang Ho into a dire situation. With Sang Jin’s help, will Jang Ho be able to find a way to overcome the obstacles before him and rise to new heights as a world-class vocalist?

Inspired by the story of singer Kim Ho Joong, “My Paparotti” is a 2013 South Korean film directed by Yoon Jong Chan.&nbsp;

My Paparotti

The solfège Team  

Living with a debilitating phobia of all forms of social interaction, Chun Soo Ro (Go Hyun Jung) has done the best she can to make a life for herself. A timid and slightly geeky cartoonist, Soo Ro does well enough when it comes to work, but her constant panic attacks make it nearly impossible for her to leave her home. Relying heavily on her sister’s help, Soo Ro is devastated by the fact that her sister is about to leave the country.&nbsp;

Overcoming her fears long enough to accompany her sister to the Busan port terminal, Soo Ro bids her sister farewell; but her ability to fight off the rising panic she feels only lasts so long. Stricken by a panic attack before she can even leave the terminal, Soo Ro is helped by a nearby nun. To repay the woman for her kindness, Soo Ro agrees to deliver flowers and a cake for her; but upon arriving at the provided address, she finds the intended recipient dead! Fleeing the scene in terror, Soo Ro soon finds herself unwillingly caught up in the middle of a multi-million dollar drug operation.

Wanted by the police and hunted by not one but two of the area’s biggest crime syndicates, Soo Ro finds herself accepting the help of five strangers who manage to turn her life completely upside down. Will she ever find a way out of this mess or will she end up embracing this new life of crime?

A story of cake and crime, “Miss Conspirator” is a 2012 action comedy film directed by Park Chul Kwan.

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